This
page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series
of web-page about the Camden Fire Department that began with the page Camden
Fire Department: The Fires of the Summer of 2011. On this and other
pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding
different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey.

Extremely
dry conditions in late March and the early March of 2012 led to a good
number of grass fires in Camden and elsewhere, including a forest fire
in the Pine Barrens of Burlington County and lower Camden County. A
simple act of tossing a lighted cigarette butt often was enough to spark
a fire, on this day in Camden at least three appear to have been started
in this fashion, one at Haddon Avenue between Federal Street and Mickle
Boulevard, and two in the exact same location at North 11th Street and
Newton Avenue. I was in my car when the call came over the radio for the
second fire at this location, and arrived on scene to find Engine
Company 1 operating, with Captain Danny Stratton and firefighters Israel
Velez, Jeff Swan, and Larry Reese.

As with
the web page covering other Camden Fire Department events, if you can
identify anyone that I've missed, please e-mail me. (I'm terrible
at at names and faces).